NMC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Land Tenure, Xerxes I, Cyrus Cylinder
29 Mar 2018
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Achaemenid empire/ persian empire: only focus on cyrus ii, cambyses, and darius. Cyrus cylinder: babylonian cuneiform, 1879(?) found, gods we upset -- left the shrines, focus on region between babylonia and elam. I built a wall of imgur enlil, great wall of babylon . Persian rule in babylonia: no major changes in short term (started in darius i, babylonian archives indicate a smooth transition to achaemenid rule under cyrus and. Cambyses: textual record (temple and private archives) shows no interruption or significant change. Cambyses: king of babylon as coregent 1 year at beginning of his fathers reighn, conquest of egypt -- pharoah at beginning but then termed dictator due to conflict with priest hood. Darius i: descended from achaemenes, tried to connect genealogy to cyrus in order to bolster his claim to being king. Languages of persian empire: elamite (administration within persian heartland, old persian (royal inscriptions, aramaic (official correspondence, babylonian (akkadian) (in babylonia) (other, local language)
